Perfect your sales documents with the PandaDoc-Pipedrive integration

The sales process can’t happen without documents. Many stages of the sales cycle have a corresponding document, whether it’s a presentation to share with a lead, or an invoice to send to a customer.

However, sales teams often struggle when handling documents, as they use different and disparate tools to enter data, send out sales proposals, and correspond with prospects – all while managing multiple deals.

So, besides being negotiating ninjas, sales reps also have to perfect their document admin skills.

According to PandaDoc’s customer research, reps spend on average up to 20% of their time generating sales docs and chasing down approvals.

While this is happening, sales managers often can’t see where the sales team is focusing their efforts, and can’t find the cause or a solution to these constant time drains.

So, how do you streamline your document and sales process?

How can you keep pushing a deal to the finish line after you’ve sent your sales proposal?

How can sales managers decrease the time reps spend on document admin tasks?

We want to show you exactly how.

The top 5 challenges of the sales document process

PandaDoc asked their customers about the biggest challenges they face with their existing proposal software and contract processes. According to the PandaDoc study:

• 67% consider their current process very time-consuming
• 60% complain that their documents are not on brand
• 41% don’t know what happens after the proposal is sent
• 40% experience problems with communication because of errors in documents
• 30% would like to fix their broken process by integrating multiple apps into one

The top five must-have features of a software solution according to the respondents were:

1. That it integrates with their CRM
2. eSignatures functionality
3. Automated data transfer
4. Content editing ability
5. Document storage and organization features

How do you streamline your sales proposal process?

PandaDoc has all the must-have features above, so now you can save time by managing the entire sales cycle in one tool, from pitching to collecting eSignatures.

With PandaDoc, you can now:

• Create new proposals and quotes in one click from any Deal. All CRM fields will be added to your proposal, quote, or contract automatically, including prospect info, company name, addresses, deal products, and any other deal-related records (including custom fields).
• Track your document’s status in Deal Notes. Once the document is created, sent or signed you will see a new deal note with a link to the document.
• Access any signed documents from Deal Files. All signed documents are uploaded as PDF copies to the Deal Files for easy access.
• Generate error-free quotes. Deal products—including product variations, taxes, discounts, and custom columns—are added to document pricing tables automatically.
• Collect eSignatures. Every PandaDoc plan includes legally-binding eSignatures, so there’s no need for a separate electronic signature tool.

PandaDoc recently announced a native integration for Pipedrive, making it easy to build sales proposals and collect electronic signatures right from Pipedrive deals.

“PandaDoc’s integration with Pipedrive streamlines our process from lead to proposal and saves us a ton of time on what would otherwise just be busywork. And what we love about Pipedrive is the simplicity of moving prospects down the funnel within the app. We use both of these apps daily and couldn't recommend them more!”

Michael Cardwell, Founder and Creative Director at Digital Brew.

It’s easy to make errors when copy-pasting customer data and pricing from a CRM deal, not to mention the wasted time. PandaDoc documents contain customer and deal data built right in.

Once you send a document to your prospects, you can monitor the progress of every proposal and contract in the Deal without jumping from one tool to another.